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Burundi Country Operational Plan (COP) 2019 Strategic Direction Summary 29 April 2019 Burundi Country Operational Plan (COP) 2019 Strategic Direction Summary 29 April 2019 Table of Contents 1.0 Goal Statement 2.0 Epidemic, Response, and Program Context 2.1 Summary statistics, disease burden and country profile 2.2 Investment profile 2.3 National sustainability profile update 2.4 Alignment of PEPFAR investments geographically to disease burden 2.5 Stakeholder engagement 3.0 Geographic and population prioritization 4.0 Program Activities for Epidemic Control in Scale-up Locations and Populations 4.1 Finding the missing, getting them on treatment, and retaining them 4.2 Prevention, specifically detailing programs for priority programming 4.3 Additional country-specific priorities listed in the planning level letter 4.4 Commodities 4.5 Collaboration, Integration, and Monitoring 4.6 Targets for scale-up locations and populations 5.0 Program Activities for Epidemic Control in Attained and Sustained Locations and Populations 5.1 COP19 programmatic priorities 5.2 Targets for attained and sustained locations and populations 5.3 Establishing service packages to meet targets in sustained provinces 6.0 Program Support Necessary to Achieve Sustained Epidemic Control 7.0 USG Management, Operations and Staffing Plan to Achieve Stated Goals Appendix A - Prioritization Appendix B - Budget Profile and Resource Projections Appendix C - Tables and Systems Investments for Section 6.0 Appendix D - Minimum Program Requirements Appendix E - Faith and Community Initiative (as applicable) Page | 2 Acronym List ABS Alliance Burundaise contre le SIDA et pour la promotion de la Santé AGYW Adolescent Girls and Young Women AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ANC Antenatal Care ART Antiretroviral Therapy ARV Antiretroviral BNDF Burundian National Defense Force CAGs Community ART Groups CAMEBU Centrale d’Achats de Médicaments du Burundi (National Drug Store) CBO Community-Based Organization CCM Country Coordinating Mechanism CHW Community Health Worker CLHIV Children Living with HIV CNLS National AIDS Council COP Country Operating Plan CSO Civil Society Organization CTX Cotrimoxazole DBS Dried Blood Spot DHIS2 District Health Information System DHT District Health Team DHS Demographic and Health Survey DOD Department of Defense DSD Differentiated Service Delivery EID Early Infant Diagnosis EMR Electronic Medical Record System EPOA Enhanced Peer Outreach Approach ER Expenditure Reporting Page | 3 FAST Funding Allocation Strategic Tool FBO Faith-Based Organizations FP Family Planning FSW Female Sex Workers FY Fiscal Year GBV Gender-based Violence GFATM Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria GNI Gross National Income GOB Government of Burundi HEI HIV Exposed Infant HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIVST HIV Self-Testing HQ Headquarters HR Human Resources HRH Human Resources for Health HSS Health Systems Strengthening HTC HIV Testing and Counseling HTS HIV Testing Services IBBSS Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance Survey ICT Information Communication Technology IDP Internally Displaced Person IHME Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation INH Isoniazid IP Implementing Partner IPT Isoniazid Preventive Therapy KANCO Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium KP Key Population LGBTI Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals LMIS Logistic Management Information System Page | 4 LPV/r Lopinavir/ritonavir LTFU Lost to Follow-Up M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MCH Maternal and Child Health MMP Multi-Month Prescribing MSM Men Who Have Sex with Men MSPLS Ministry of Public Health and Fight against AIDS NAC National AIDS Council NACP National AIDS Control Program NGO Non-Governmental Organization NHDP National Health Development Plan OI Opportunistic Infections OVC Orphans and Vulnerable Children PAAR Prioritized Above Allocation Request PBF Performance-Based Financing PEPFAR President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief PHIA Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment PITC Provider-initiated Testing and Counseling PLACE Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts PLHIV People Living with HIV PMTCT Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission POART PEPFAR Oversight and Accountability Response Team POC Point of Care PLL Planning Level Letter PrEP Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis PWID People Who use Injectable Drugs QA/QI Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement RTK Rapid Test Kit SABERS Seroprevalence and Behavioral Epidemiology Risk Surveys Page | 5 SCMS Supply Chain Management System SDS Strategic Direction Summary S/GAC U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, Department of State SI Strategic Information SID Sustainability Index and Dashboard SIMS Site Improvement through Monitoring System SNU Sub National Unit STI Sexually Transmitted Infections SW Sex Workers TA Technical Assistance TAT Turn Around Time TB Tuberculosis TG Transgender Individuals TPT TB Preventive Therapy UNAIDS United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS UNDP United Nations Development Program UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees USAID United States Agency for International Development USG United States Government VL Viral Load WHO World Health Organization Page | 6 1.0 Goal Statement Burundi has made remarkable progress in its HIV response over the past five years, and the country is poised to achieve sustained epidemic control in fiscal years 2020-2021. As a result, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program and its key partner, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM), must realign and harmonize investments to strengthen Burundi’s HIV response by closing known gaps, maintaining achievements, and rapidly transferring best practices to the National AIDS Control Program (NACP) through a program model of targeted and tailored technical assistance to achieve and sustain epidemic control. The PEPFAR Burundi program will achieve its ambitious goal for COP19 by ensuring enhanced coordination with the GFATM throughout the implementation of the new geographic strategy, differentiated age, gender, and population approaches, and key above-site investments, comprehensively aimed at prioritizing epidemiologic impact with a cross- cutting focus on quality management and quality improvement (QM/QI) at all levels. Geographically, PEPFAR Burundi will expand nationally, extending program support from the six PEPFAR-supported Legacy provinces to all 18 provinces. Intensity and level of support in each province will be tailored to current progress towards achievement of the three 95 goals for epidemic control: in provinces with substantial progress in finding and linking people living with HIV (PLHIV) to treatment- the Sustain provinces - PEPFAR programming will focus on closing antiretroviral treatment (ART) coverage gaps, strengthening retention on treatment, and accelerating viral load access and suppression; case-detection efforts will be highly targeted. In provinces where progress has been slower, with low case-finding and low ART coverage - the Optimize provinces - PEPFAR programming will focus on case-detection, accelerating ART coverage, strengthening retention, and accelerating viral load access and suppression. In each province, PEPFAR programming will prioritize technical assistance to districts with the highest burden and need, and support sites with highest case-finding rates and/or large ART cohorts, particularly district hospitals, sites associated with large key populations (KPs) hotspots, and tuberculosis (TB) reference facilities, with the aim of directly assisting sites that collectively serve 80 percent of all ART patients in each province, while the District Health Teams (DHTs) will receive targeted technical assistance to ensure that they are reaching the remainder of sites. Complementarity and harmonization of activities with the GFATM and deliberate, continuous coordination with both the GFATM and the NACP will be paramount to achieving national goals of high ART coverage. Programmatically, PEPFAR Burundi will continue to develop and implement solutions that are population-, age-, and gender-specific with the goal of accelerating case-finding, strengthening retention nationally, and closing the viral load access and suppression gaps. In collaboration with the NACP and the GFATM, the team will develop and scale with fidelity approaches that are geographically tailored to optimize epidemic control achievements and to increase the national program’s ownership of the response. Interventions will target the continuum of the HIV patient’s journey, from community-level to the facility and back, to ensure high-quality services Page | 7 throughout the patient’s experience and to meet the needs of all populations, especially KPs, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), and orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). The PEPFAR program will optimize the integration of TB/HIV services by improving TB screening of all ART clients and by expanding TB preventive therapy (TPT) for all TB-negative ART clients. In COP19, the Burundi program will also expand the successes of its gender-based violence (GBV) program, by establishing and implementing a framework for full integration of GBV prevention and treatment services across all PEPFAR-supported services and interventions. Above-site investments will be aligned with site-level objectives, focusing on strengthening supply chain systems, optimizing lab networks and functionality, and expanding health information systems to serve the needs of a sustained epidemic control program. In close complementarity with the GFATM, PEPFAR will continue to procure ARV drugs and other essential
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